For me, the most accurate definition has to be the very simple “Blending of the senses” because that’s exactly what my own synesthesia seems to do. Whenever I hear a sound, be it a word sound or an ...

There are rare humans who can taste their words, literally. Now a group of British scientists is trying to figure out how this unusual cross talk occurs in the brain. Julia Simner of the University of ...

Can words be tasted on the tongue? Can sounds be seen as coloured shapes? Such questions are not hypothetical, nor are they psychedelic hallucinations. They refer to a well-documented neurological ...

Probably few people would be surprised that I spend a lot of time talking about words, even when I don't have a column due. In a recent discussion, I learned that a friend has a rare condition that ...